Most of us are probably more easily gulled than we think. When I ran an IT department in Novartis (big Swiss pharma firm) I came back from holiday to find an email from the CEO saying he'd heard… (View Post)

I think his refusal to rule out defection plus his clear statement that he WILL be a candidate makes defection likely. It's hard to see the Tories putting him up again, and he's surely not … (View Post)

To be fair, 16 minutes is bloody fast compared with most of the private sector helplines that I encounter. I once tried to cancel a Norton subscription, which you can't do online - after an hour… (View Post)

Impoverished elderly friends live on the rural edge of my old patch in the old estate which was the scene for Lady Chatterley's Lover, in a tumbledown rented cottage facing onto empty scrubland.… (View Post)

I broadly sympathise with many of your posts, but I do think it's really unpleasant to say you enjoy the prospect of anyone's illness being fatal, even though I get that what you meant is t… (View Post)